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Katniss

#12,527 in 2025Girls' name

English word name: katniss

Katniss has been given to 209 babies in the U.S. since 2012. In 2025 it ranked #12,527 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Katniss, 2025

1 in 474,000

Katniss over time, 1880–2025

Girls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Katniss: meaning, origin, and history

English word name: katniss

English

What Katniss means

Katniss is documented as an English vocabulary word adopted as a personal name. Its immediate reference is the word katniss; the cited entry discusses the word history separately from its use as a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Katniss is used in Literature.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈkæt.nɪs/ for Katniss.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 209 girls were recorded with the name Katniss between 2012 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 38 in 2014; its best national rank was #3,958 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,668 in 2020 to #12,527 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,657 in 2015 to #12,527 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Katniss?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,527
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Katniss sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Katniss. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Katnisss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Katniss was born before 2016 — so the typical Katniss is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
71.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
209
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 71.3% of all recorded uses (149).

Is Katniss rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,853
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,859
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7,870
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.23×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
18.4%
Peak was 2014 (38)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,958
2014

Where Katniss is used

Across 1910–2025, Katniss was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,010,489 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Katniss has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Katniss around the world

Where Katniss ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2014–2014
    #4,003
    in 2014
  • France
    2013–2025
    #3,349
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2014–2019
    #3,370
    in 2019

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Katniss by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,527
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,859
Best rank ever
#3,958
2014
Peak year
2014
38 that year
First recorded
2012
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
209
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Katniss

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Katniss

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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